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A sophisticated combustion control system is being installed in the S.S. Badger car ferry and will be completed just in time for the 2014 sailing season, which begins on May 16, according to the Lake Michigan Carferry service.

The work is being done in compliance with a consent decree that will ultimately end the discharge of waste ash into Lake Michigan by the start of the 2015 sailing season.

"This technology has never been executed on a coal-fired steam ship," said Chuck Leonard, vice president of navigation for the car ferry, in a news release. "The new combustion system will allow the ship ...